Evolution of Resistance
- Posted January 26th, 2008 at 18:35 EDT by
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Developed by Insomniac Games, Resistance 2 is on its way to be one of the biggest exclusives released on the PlayStation 3. Being the third title to release from Insomniac for the PS3, we'd like to take a look at the evolution of the game's graphics since its beginning. The first photos compare images from the first build of Resistance known as Project I-8, and lead up to the first new screenshots of Resistance 2. Click the images to enlarge.
Also with technology constantly advancing, we probably see differed rendering and full screen anti aliasing when Resistance 2 releases.
"Starting with Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction we are supporting texture streaming, which will make the worlds look even better, and will also consume even more space on disc," wrote Brian Hastings, Insomniac's chief creative officer. "With streamed textures, streamed geometry and streamed audio, even with compression, you can quickly approach 1GB of data per level."
With the first Resistance hitting 17.5 GB in size, it will be amazing to see how large Insomniac will make Resistance 2.
In an interview with VideoGamer, Brian Hastings goes over the technology and procedures they used to fit all of the action into Ratchet and Clank Future at 60fps, which we can only assume will get better in Resistance 2.
"The tech and gameplay teams have moved tons of things over to the SPUs that used to run on the PPU. Collision and physics are entirely running on SPUs now, which allows us to put much more on the screen at once than we were able to with Resistance. Moving more and more code to the SPUs is an ongoing process and I think we'll continue to see major benefits from this for several more years," said Hastings.
This is probably the reason why Insomniac is pushing multiplayer from 40 to 60-player matches, and two-player to eight-player co-op. They have spent enough time with the Cell architecture to understand how it works and how to optimize their games for it.
With Resistance 2 still far off from release, you can bet on seeing even more improvements over the course of the next few months. Until then, you can help out on the Insomniac forums by letting the developers know what you want to see in your Resistance sequel.
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Stev-o |
kingboy941- 2:40pm GMT - January 27th, 2008
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well..the goliaths still look the same and all they did was change the looks of the hybrids??and yea the background does look different and the colors are better,but wat we need is the info on the background of the game and a bit of the story line!!!
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BIGROB904- 10:51pm GMT - January 29th, 2008
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i thinkall of us agree this is a day one buy we will forget all about cod 4 o and HALO WHO? the year of the playstation
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hazeblaze
- 8:09pm GMT - February 3rd, 2008
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Of course this game is going to be better than COD4! Haven't you read anything on it yet?! 60 player squad based online combat crushes anything that's been done before it, period!
As far as the single player, the first Resistance is already better than COD4 in that department... so the two seperate campaigns in Resistance 2 will easily crush COD4 in that department too.
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v8nnwilder
- 2:41am GMT - February 5th, 2008
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This is looking real good.... Can't wait for it to become a reality. Will definately get this game as soon as it hits the shelves. I will also keep supporting Insomniac as the are one of the very few developers that actually worked hard to get their heads around the Cell technology... And the got it right for sure. And things will only get better and better.
Resistance :Fall Of Man was my first game on the PS3, I recently finished Rachet & Clank and I was actually suprised at how much fun that game was...
So I will wait for Insomniac to bring out the next list of games and I'll pick 'em up as they come along.
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